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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
A Case Study in Multimodal Management
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Dear Colleague,
I am proud to share the latest edition of Pain Consult, the physician newsletter from Cleveland Clinic's Department of Pain Management. This publication serves as a forum for notable developments, insights and offerings to help all our patients better manage chronic pain.
The contents of this issue illustrate what a dynamic time it is in the field of pain management. Dr. Teresa Dews offers a snapshot of how Cleveland Clinic manages the use of opioids in the midst of growing regulatory efforts to curb their abuse and misuse. Dr. Joseph Abdelmalak shares insights into our evolving understanding of one of his specialties, chronic pelvic pain, and its nuanced management. And Dr. Nagy Mekhail updates us on efforts both on the international level and here at Cleveland Clinic to advance evidence-based medicine in the relatively young specialty of pain medicine.
The issue's cover story is devoted to lessons in the management of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) from a challenging case directed by Dr. Michael Stanton-Hicks, a giant in the field of CRPS whom we are proud to have had on our staff since 1988. Over his long career, Dr. Stanton-Hicks has distinguished himself as a pioneering clinician, researcher and inventor across the spectrum of pain medicine, including CRPS, the use of peripheral nerve stimulation and many other areas. Dr. Stanton-Hicks moved to consultant status in our department earlier this year, but we are delighted to still have him on board as a sage advisor and colleague. We thank him for his singular contributions, and I am pleased to dedicate this issue of Pain Consult to him.
As I look back on my first full year leading the Department of Pain Management, I am honored to be charged with continuing the legacy of stellar pain medicine clinicians like Dr. Stanton-Hicks. Looking ahead, we are eager to continue our work to extend the reach of specialized pain management beyond inpatient and outpatient clinical settings and closer to patients' lives at home and in the community. I invite you to contact me with your thoughts on how we might partner to advance these or other efforts.
Richard W. Rosenquist, MD Chairman, Department of Pain Management rosenqr@ | 216.445.8388
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On the Cover: Common placement of spinal cord stimulator leads for the management of complex regional pain syndrome in the lower extremity.
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An Enigmatic Disease Demands Multimodal Approaches
T wenty-year-old Jordan Keen has contended with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) for almost half her life. Though she now has the condition so well controlled that she ran the Chicago Marathon last year (in the impressive time of less than 6 hours, 30 minutes), her experience is a lesson in the enigmatic nature of CRPS and the multimodal approach often needed to overcome it.
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A S k i I n j u r y T u r n s to S e v e r e Pain and Skin Changes
That doctor was Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD, of Cleveland Clinic's Department of
-- such as biofeedback, aquatic therapy, relaxation techniques and group therapy
Jordan's struggle with CRPS began with
Pain Management. "On her first visit, I
-- on an inpatient and day-care basis
an injury to her right knee from downhill saw that Jordan satisfied the signs and
over a three-week period. "The program
skiing when she was 12. Within a day,
symptoms for the diagnosis of CRPS,"
aims to raise the patient's pain threshold
her knee soreness evolved into a severe
Dr. Stanton-Hicks says. Those signs and
so that pain isn't such a big part of his or
throbbing, shooting pain that extended
symptoms were first laid out in diagnos-
her life," explains Dr. Stanton-Hicks.
down to her foot. Her lower right leg swelled and turned red and purple. Its skin temperature was uneven, turning hot at times. The leg began to show changes in skin and hair growth. The pain was so great that the formerly athletic Jordan was constantly dependent on crutches.
These severe symptoms did not relent for many months as Jordan was treated in her native Michigan with various pharmacologic therapies and underwent arthroscopic knee surgery, to no avail.
tic criteria for CRPS (formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or RSD) in 1993 by Dr. Stanton-Hicks and other leading pain medicine specialists from around the world. The latest version of these criteria (Table 1) was recently accepted into the International Association for the Study of Pain's classification of chronic pain conditions. "We've tried to make it easier to make the CRPS diagnosis and get patients effective therapies more quickly," Dr. Stanton-Hicks says.
This helped up to a point for Jordan, but more complete relief came when Dr. Stanton-Hicks inserted a temporary spinal cord stimulator (SCS) into her back during her time in the rehabilitation program. The SCS delivered a controllable electrical current to her spine to modulate the pain coming from her leg. The pain relief was "instantaneous and incredible," Jordan says. "I went from a constant stabbing and ripping feeling to a Jacuzzi-like sensation. It made move-
It wasn't until Jordan was referred to Cleveland Clinic more than a year after her skiing accident that the cause of her relentless pain was identified as CRPS. "The first doctor I saw at Cleveland Clinic was Dr. Jack Andrish, an orthopaedic surgeon," Jordan says. "Within 30 seconds, he said, `I know what this is -- CRPS -- and I have just the doctor for you.'"
Jorda n ' s C as e C o n t i n u e d
Dr. Stanton-Hicks first treated Jordan with a local anesthetic via an epidural catheter, but navigating the narrow path between pain relief and minimal impact on muscle function was too difficult. So he referred her to Cleveland Clinic's Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, which integrates various physical, occupational and psychological therapies
ment so free and easy."
That ease of movement "helped me break through the pain barrier to make the physical therapies more successful," Jordan recalls. She used the temporary SCS for about eight weeks to get off her crutches, regain her mobility, and manage her pain with medication and the skills learned in the rehab program.
After the SCS was removed, Jordan found
that staying active, even when it hurt,
was key to keeping her pain manageable.
Table 1. `Budapest' criteria for diagnosis of CRPS (2010): One sign or one symptom in two or more categories below qualifies for diagnosis*
"The pain of CRPS isn't damaging to the body; it's like a fire alarm that goes off without there being an actual fire," she
M otor changes (e.g., involving tremor, muscle weakness, dystonia)
or trophic changes (hair, nail, skin abnormalities)
says. "For me, making a daily commitment to movement got me back to living the life I liked -- being active."
S ensory changes (e.g., excessive response to noxious stimuli
[hyperalgesia] or allodynia)
C R P S T h rows a C u r v e b a l l
Jordan thrived for about eight months until
Vasomotor changes (e.g., temperature, skin color)
she developed a severe abdominal infection from food poisoning that led to pancreatitis
Sudomotor changes and edema (sweating, swelling, etc.)
and sent her to the hospital. She developed excruciating pain in the abdomen
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*In patients who have continuing pain disproportionate to any inciting event
that remained even after the infection cleared. The pain worsened over the next
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Jordan teaching netball to patients in Cleveland Clinic's Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program in June 2012. When she was advised to steer clear of contact sports because of her CRPS, Jordan took up the noncontact sport of netball and has since mastered it. She traveled to South Africa in July 2012 to compete as part of Team USA in netball in the World University Games.
six months, cropping up in one of her arms Hicks referred her to Cleveland Clinic's
She was able to gradually reduce the
and then in her legs. It was again accom-
three-week Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation
stimulation level and frequency of use
panied by swelling and skin discoloration.
Program, where Jordan was educated
so that she stopped needing the SCS
Jordan returned to Dr. Stanton-Hicks, who saw this episode of persistent severe pain as being linked to her CRPS. "Our current understanding is that CRPS is a systemic problem," he explains. "While it manifests in one spot where an injury occurs -- generally an arm or a leg -- the entire nervous system is impacted so that it reacts to trauma differently than would be the case in an individual without CRPS."
about her pain using methods tailored to pediatric patients, including many behavioral components. "We'd do therapy in a classroom setting where we'd stand and do homework or learn skills for studying and doing schoolwork with chronic pain," she explains. "It taught me new, more specific ways to manage my pain."
R e t u r n to N e ar Norma l
That helped Jordan make it to the point when her insurer approved the perma-
entirely by the fall of 2010, not quite two years after it was implanted. Now Jordan views the stimulator as "just an insurance policy in case I need it," explaining that she is off all medications, no longer experiences pain on an everyday basis and can manage emergent pain quickly using techniques learned in the rehab programs, especially yoga. She also emphasizes the importance of small choices she makes every day to thrive in the face of CRPS, such as wak-
He soon suspected a permanent SCS
nent SCS, which "took away the pain the ing up 15 minutes early to make time
would be the ultimate solution for
minute I turned it on," she says. "I have
for meditation and prayer or choosing to
Jordan's new pain, but Jordan had to
only one lead, so there's only an inch of
take a walk after work instead of plop-
wait more than a year before this costly
spine being stimulated, but I experience
ping down to watch TV.
therapy was approved by her health
stimulation from half my face down to
insurer. In the interim, Dr. Stanton-
my toes. It's amazing."
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